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Welcome to the 50 State Challenge Wiki!

This year I thought it would be fun to do a 50 state challenge with my students. I want them to be more connected with the world around them. We live in Hershey, PA and are looking to connect with a classroom from each state. We are a first grade classroom, but would love to connect with any grade level!

We want to learn about your state and specifically what your school is like! We want to use Google + or Oovoo to call you (Skype doesn't work well in our district). We would LOVE to share all about Hershey, PA too! If you are interested in helping out, please send me a request to join the wiki and put your name and contact information below! We look forward to learning with you! (As we learn about your state, a page will be created by students on the wiki)

Please feel free to begin your own state challenge and connect with those on the list!

	Name	Grade / District	Email
Alabama	Susan Monday	1st Grade / W H Council School	suzruns2@gmail.com
Alaska	Robanne Stading	Elementary Special Ed/Nikolaevsk School	rstading@kpbsd.k12.ak.us twitter: tchlrn_ak
Arizona
Arkansas	Anthony Bright	7-12 Harrison AR	anbright@hps.k12.ar.us
California	Liz Dillon	2nd/ LA Archdiocese- Long Beach	grade2@saslongbeach.com
Colorado	Sarah Balagat Gwynn Moore	1st/2nd Grade/ Adams 50 K-5 Paris Elementary Aurora Public Schools	sbalagat@gmail.com gmmoore@aps.k12.co.us
Connecticut	Carolyn Stanley	Bethany Middle School -grades 7and8	carolyn.stanley@reg5.k12.ct.us
Delaware
Florida
Georgia
Hawaii
Idaho
Illinois	Laurie Brackett Becky Kleist	Multiage 1/2 - Westgate School Arlington Heights 25	lbrackett@sd25.org rkleist@sd25.org
Indiana
Iowa	Shannon Miller
Kansas	Judy Beam	1st Grade ~ Anthony Elementary	judybb@usd361.org
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maine	nadene mathes	1st grade atwood primary school	nmathes@rsu18.org
Maryland	Andrew Hanes	3rd grade Friends School of Baltimore	ahanes@friendsbalt.org
Massachusetts	Jack Curletti	Kindergarten	jack.curletti@bhrsd.org
Michigan	Heidi Ortolan Val Ruckes	1st Grade- Island City Academy 1st Grade- McGregor Elementary	heidi.ortolan@gmail.com vruckes@rochester.k12.mi.us
Minnesota	Sara Getting	1st Grade - Inver Grove Heights Community Schools	gettings@invergrove.k12.mn.us
Mississippi
Missouri	Krista Cantrell	1st Grade - Fremont Elementary	klcantrell@spsmail.org
Montana	Kathy Sather	1st Grade - Highland Park Early Primary School	satherkathy@gmail.com
Nebraska
Nevada
New Hampshire
New Jersey	Carol Olson	1st Grade- Princeton Day School	colson@pds.org
New Mexico
New York	Cindy Baker	Kindergarten-4th grade, Avoca Central School	cbaker@avocacsd.org
North Carolina	Cindi Gibbs-Wilborn	TK-5th grade Providence Day School	cindi.gibbs-wilborn@providenceday.org Twitter: cindigwpds
North Dakota	Jeremy Holkup	2nd/Wilton Elementary	Jeremy.Holkup.2@sendit.nodak.edu
Ohio	Julie Simmons Mary Beth Hudek Amy Keyser	1st/Columbus Academy - Independent School 2nd/Madison Elementary Ohio Connections Academy (a virtual school)	simmons@columbusacademy.org marybeth.hudek@madisonmohawks.org akeyser@connectionseducation.com
Oklahoma
Oregon
Pennsylvania	Jan Abernathy
Rhode Island
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee	Reuben Stugart	Jere Baxter Middle School - 5-8 grade	rstugart@mnpsk12.org
Texas	Beth Hilsabeck	1st grade/Bluebonnet Elementary	hilsabecke@lisd.net
Utah
Vermont	Beth Redford	Richmond Elem K-4	beth.redford@cesu.k12.vt.us
Virginia	Erica payne	meriwether Lewis elem k-5	Epayne@k12albemarle.org
Washington
West Virginia
Wisconsin	Danielle DeGroot	Windlake Academy-7/8th grade	ddegroot@seedsofhealth.org
Wyoming

Would love to connect with classrooms around the world! Please just write your location with all other contact information!

	Name	Grade/ District	Email
South Australia	Jackie Nelson	Year 1 - Craigburn PrimarySchool	jackie.nelson@craigburn.sa.edu.au Blog: jackienelson.edublogs.org
Surrey, BC, Canada	Karen Lirenman	Grade 1/ Bonaccord Elementary	mslirenman@gmail.com
Brisbane, Australia	Amanda Marrinan	Year 2/St John Vianney's Primary	amarrinan@bne.catholic.edu.au
Swift Current, SK, Canada	Tanya Hansen	Grade 1 - Central Elementary	tanya.hansen.gr1@gmail.com
Port Hardy, BC	Sarah Soltau-Heller	Grade 1 - Eagle View Elementary	sheller@sd85.bc.ca
Ancaster, ON, Canada	Aviva Dunsiger	Grade 1/2 - Ancaster Meadow School	dunsiger@yahoo.com
Guatemala City, Guatemala	Claudia Ozaeta	Grade 1 - Montesssori International School	chachi_2001_gt@yahoo.com
Kanata, ON, Canada	Marcie Martel	Grade 1 - St. Gabriel	marcie.martel@ocsb.ca
Montreal. Qc, Canada	Elyse Haber	Grade 1 Hebrew Academy	elyse.haber@ha-mtl.org